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Elaine
@actuallyelaine.bsky.social
Freelance fairy's midwife.🌈
Signs, portents, omens, and foreshadowing, with chips and a side salad.
Jabberwock champion. Eldritch horror.
The Shrew Remains Untamed.
Pinned
Summer, outro.
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“Here we go” said Frog.
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.

The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Depression and anxiety.
What a ridiculous pair.

10/10 would not recommend.
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Forward.
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Summer, outro.
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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#CandleOfHope for people making difficult decisions.
June 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Moving forward, albeit uphill.
The easier path is backward; all traps are baited with tender, tempting things.

Be a light, if you can; even an impossibly tiny flicker keeps the darkness at bay.
November 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Giving regards to the north island sea.
31st October, 2025.
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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A Halloween mirror is made by the rays of the moon shining into a looking-glass. If a girl sits down at the mirror at midnight and cuts an apple into 9 slices, holding each on the point of a knife before she eats it, she will see her future lover in the mirror, asking for the last piece of apple.
October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Today's view.

North island.
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Today's #PNW sunrise.
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Release the hounds!
I am free for THREE DAYS!
October 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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And all of it without violating the Constitution or terrorizing people in their own neighborhoods.
Governor Newsom deploys
National Guard to food banks after government shutdown halts Californians' benefits.
October 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I am two workdays away from my first 4-day* holiday since 2019!

*non-consecutive.
October 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
@davindaire.bsky.social
This is what happens when your squash plants cross-pollinate with your pumpkins.
SQUMPKINS!
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
All I could think while snapping this photo was:
" How many creatures are watching me right now?"
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
While 2020 was an odd, nightmarish year, my manic attention to gardening produced perhaps the world's most beautiful pumpkin.
October 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hello, lovely.
🕸🩷🕸
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I am Toad.
Absolutely Toad.
Unapologetically Toad.
October 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Madness.
Look at you.
You're gorgeous!
October 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Because the world has too many loud sounds and sharp edges, please enjoy a look back at Reggie, a Pacific tree frog who took up residence in an outdoor planter at my workplace last October.

#pnwtreefrog
#tinybuthugelyloud
October 18, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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On a dreary morning this week a few hundred Yellow-headed Blackbirds gathered to perch atop reed clumps in a flooded field, making it look alive as if with wild sunflowers. It was a brief appearance, the likes of which I’ve not seen before. Another of Mother Nature’s special moments. #birds_matter
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM